Word: kosovo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the lethal B-2 bombers that emerged as the technological heroes of the war. But that evening, faces at the White House turned ashen. Commanders of Russian troops in Bosnia, evidently worried about the fate of Kosovar Serbs, had rumbled into Pristina, Kosovo's capital, despite an earlier understanding that they would not enter until agreement had been reached with NATO on command of the peacekeepers. On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov apologized and said the troops would withdraw, but as the day wore on, they stayed put, effectively in charge...
...threat to the allied forces, but their bizarre deployment set off worries about whether Russian President Boris Yeltsin was in control of his own military, or whether he had sanctioned the early troop movement as a concession to hard-line generals dismayed by Russia's lack of influence in Kosovo. Publicly, however, U.S. officials tried to put the best spin on the situation. "We would like them to participate [in the peacekeeping mission]," said Defense Secretary William Cohen. "Whether they arrive a few hours earlier or later really is not a significant factor...
From the start of the conflict, the U.S. and its allies knew that after the bombing stopped, they would assume the responsibility for keeping peace in Kosovo; that it would require thousands of troops on the ground to prevent flare-ups between stray armed Serbian civilians and the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.); and that the mission would be long and costly. But all that was supposed to get going after a few days of air strikes--not after three months, during which the Serbs reduced Kosovo to a wasteland and turned more than 800,000 Kosovars into refugees. The Administration...
...officially time to wage some peace in Kosovo. NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana announced Sunday that with the Serb troops out of Kosovo ? ahead of schedule, no less ? "I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign." President Clinton assured CNN it was "a very happy day." But on the ground in Kosovo, the early signs are already making the push-button war look like the easy part. Across the province, KLA troops ? in full camouflage and still fully armed despite agreements to the contrary ? are parading in full view of NATO troops and making everybody nervous...
...very forceful," offered national security adviser Sandy Berger. "His behavior was neither erratic or shaky," added Clinton later. Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien declared the ailing bear "strong. But he can?t run a marathon." Too bad. Because for everyone in that room, that?s exactly what Kosovo is shaping...